Linus Thörnblad

Linus Thörnblad (born 6 March 1985) is a Swedish former track and field athlete competing in high jump. He won the bronze medal at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships and a silver medal at the 2007 European Athletics Indoor Championships. He represented Sweden at the Summer Olympics in 2004 and 2008 and finished fourth at the 2010 European Athletics Championships. He has a personal best of 2.38 metres set indoors.

Linus Thörnblad

Linus Thörnblad
Personal information
Full name	Carl Linus Thörnblad
Nationality	Swedish
Born	(1985-03-06) 6 March 1985 (age 40) Lund, Sweden
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Event	High jump
Club	Malmö AI
Coached by	Yannick Tregaro
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	2.34 m 2.38 m (indoors)
Medal record World Indoor Championships 2006 Moscow High jump European Indoor Championships 2007 Birmingham High jump European Junior Championships 2003 Tampere High jump World Athletics Final 2006 Stuttgart High jump 2007 Stuttgart High jump

Biography

Thörnblad started high jumping at the age of 16, jumping 2.06 m in his first year. Two years later he jumped 2.30 m. He decided to retire from competition in 2012 at the age of 27 due to trouble with injuries and clinical depression.^[1] In August 2018, he briefly returned to the track and won the high jump competition at the Swedish Athletics Championships, after which he returned to retirement.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Notes
Representing  Sweden
2002	World Junior Championships	Kingston, Jamaica	17th	2.15 m
2004	World Junior Championships	Grosseto, Italy	4th	2.21 m
	Olympic Games	Athens, Greece	24th	2.20 m
2005	European Indoor Championships	Madrid, Spain	20th	2.18 m
	European U23 Championships	Erfurt, Germany	10th	2.21 m
2006	World Indoor Championships	Moscow, Russia	3rd	2.33 m
	European Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	4th	2.34 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	1st	2.33 m
2007	European Indoor Championships	Birmingham, UK	2nd	2.32 m
	European U23 Championships	Debrecen, Hungary	1st	2.24 m
	World Championships	Osaka, Japan	15th	2.16 m
	World Athletics Final	Stuttgart, Germany	3rd	2.27 m
2008	Olympic Games	Beijing, China	26th	2.20 m
2009	European Indoor Championships	Torino, Italy	20th	2.17 m
	World Championships	Berlin, Germany	5th	2.23 m
2010	European Championships	Barcelona, Spain	4th	2.29 m